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Jakdracula , to til in TIL the number of continents varies and do not follow a strict criteria
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Yea, what’s the deal with Australia anyway? It’s an island, anyone can see that.

sazey , to til in TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the "Technocracy Movement." Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who ha...

Scientists would end up causing a bigger genocide than a despotic politician could ever dream of. King, CEO, a farmer or a baker, whoever is put in charge should have to suffer the consequences of their failures too instead of being allowed to quietly shuffle off to cushy speaking gigs at the expense of wider society. Bring back decimations and obligatory seppuku for politicians, economists, central bankers and other policy makers I say. Even if it proves worse than the current regime in place, at least it will be an entertaining slide to hell.

voodooattack , to til in TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the "Technocracy Movement." Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who ha...

I personally dream of a technocratic demarchy model of governance where decision makers are chosen randomly from a pool of qualified professionals who opt-in for a given field.

ArugulaZ , to til in TIL the design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights.

It makes for a faster, more efficient execution. This was not what its creator had intended... he just wanted to take executioners too drunk to feel guilt or aim precisely out of the equation. I think he went to his grave regretting his invention, as it was so frequently used during the French Revolution that dogs and cats would lap up the spilled blood.

nightauthor , to til in TIL that the BBC had no archival policy until 1978, and many of its old broadcasts were only aired live. A number of BBC broadcasts are lost, including a show featuring a then-unknown Bob Dylan; 97...
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Don’t tell any datahoarders about this, you’ll make them cry. I don’t fully ascribe myself that title, but this hurts me.

Supreme , to til in TIL that approximately 70% of the world’s vegetarians live in India.

Man I had Indian food for the first time a few months ago. Had some cauliflower that tasted like chicken. Changed my life.

Znarl , to til in TIL that approximately 70% of the world’s vegetarians live in India.

4 out if 5 people in India are also protein-deficient. Meat and diary consumption will only increase in India going against global trends.

Crackhappy , to til in TIL that Prey is the first ever feature film available in a full Comanche dub
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By far the best Predator movie, hands down.

tpihkal , to til in TIL many female insects mate only once in their lives. Insect populations can be controlled by releasing flocks of sterile males into the wild. Females mate with them, never give birth and simply die.

Recycled content from Reddit from a long time ago; but still interesting.

LemmyFeed ,

We gotta pump these lemmy numbers up! I’m here for the reposts for sure

Lemon_Rick ,

We’d all love more Lemmies in the banks,

So any ol’ content gets thanks

And we’ll yet raise a toast

To this weird old repost

'Bout a bug penis shooting all blanks

TooLikeTheNope , to technology in Other Fediverse projects

Fediverse is well differentiated into many sites offering similar capabilities to their more well established commercial and proprietary counterpart, and as the time passes these federated alternatives quality is nearing practically the production level, apart from Mastodon and Lemmy which are the most known by now it is worth mentioning also PeerTube (Youtube), PixelFed (instagram), Misskey, Calckey and Pleroma (a mix between twitter and tumblr), HubZilla (facebook), FunkWhale(Bandcamp) and OwnCast (twitch).

Here some handy links:

joinfediverse.wiki/Main_Page

www.fediverse.to

fediverse.party

Persen , to til in TIL that Germany created synthetic butter from coal during WW2. It was described as nutritious and of agreeable taste.

So, more sinthetic margarine?

SocialMediaRefugee , to til in TIL that Germany created synthetic butter from coal during WW2. It was described as nutritious and of agreeable taste.

During ww2 the alternative was hunger

UncleGrandPa , to til in TIL Only about 9% of plastic ever produced has been recycled.

Meaning almost 90 percent of everything ever made of plastic is still around

FiniteBanjo ,

The other 10% is also still around just in different shapes.

Gumus ,

Most of plastic trash is burned, so it’s around only in the form of CO2 and other chemicals in the atmosphere.

LordCrom , to til in TIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued an Apple MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.

Heh, just keep the laptop shut and use external monitor kbd and mouse.

ulkesh ,
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Not all kids can afford that.

delirious_owl , (edited )
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Yeah, a piece of tape is much cheaper

Allero ,

Microphone: hello

Dkarma , to til in TIL that in the work, An Instinct for Dragons, an anthropologist argues that the universality of dragons across human societies is due to evolutionary reasons, with common primate predators being merg

This would be a bear not a lizard. Idiotic premise.

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